During a protest action organized by the Azerbaijan Academic Union and the Austrian-Azerbaijani Association of Culture and Entrepreneurs (AZER-DER) in Vienna, diaspora activists protested against the illegal exploitation of mineral deposits in Azerbaijan, where Russian peacekeepers are temporarily stationed.
Report has learned from the State Committee for Work with Diaspora that the protesters chanted the slogans "We protest against the plunder of Azerbaijan's natural resources!", "End ecocide by Armenia!", "Stop ecological terror on the territory of Azerbaijan!" and expressed solidarity with Azerbaijani environmental activists, civil society representatives and volunteers holding a protest on the Lachin-Khankandi road.
They noted that Azerbaijanis living abroad will not turn a blind eye to the plundering of underground and surface resources on the territory of Azerbaijan by Armenia and Armenian separatists. According to them, the ecoterror committed in the Karabakh economic region should turn into a universal problem.
Local residents were informed that during the almost 30-year occupation, the Armenians plundered natural resources, destroyed about 60,000 hectares of forests.
It was noted that the world community should support the fair voice of Azerbaijan, which is making serious efforts to eliminate the consequences of the war and carrying out large-scale creative work, and call for the adoption of practical steps to stop environmental terror.